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The PETE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,312 7147 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 368 12256 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +3944 +5109 +0.001 +9
Other Countries
Australia 36 33045 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PETE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 656 1227 0.015 147
Texas 580 4600 0.003 28
California 289 11145 0.001 9
Florida 246 9549 0.002 15
Michigan 208 7489 0.002 21
Top States for PETE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 145 652 0.023 231
Louisiana 656 1227 0.015 147
Nevada 94 3158 0.005 47
Maine 58 3959 0.005 45
New Mexico 73 2896 0.004 40

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PETE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PETE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PETE in Louisiana than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PETE by picking someone at random in Alaska than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PETE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PETE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PETE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PETE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 877 20.34
Mixed Race 108 2.5
White (Hispanic) 84 1.95
Asian/Pacific 24 0.56
Black/African American 1,943 45.06
White (Caucasian) 1,276 29.59

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PETE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PETE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PETE.

Similar names to PETE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PETE

The following words are slight variants of PETE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.